Synopsis. On December 23, 2017, PM Melqui Oliveira passed away and a Rio newspaper published the following headline: PM dies during an attempted bank robbery in São Cristóvão; number of police officers killed in RJ this year rises to 132 . The agent (Corporal) approached the robbers and was killed with fifteen shots. The number of police officers murdered in the last twenty-two years reaches 3,118. The newspaper concluded. In this book, I did thorough research into how the deaths of all 134 military police officers, who were murdered in the State of Rio de Janeiro in 2017, happened.